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[wik] Apparently, Zombies suck at keeping their websites up. I've adjusted the image so that it again displays, but no guarantees into the future

A taste:

luvs2cuddle

Tagline: "I enjoy long, slow, lumbering walks on the beach"

Interests: Lumbering, staring vacantly, cuddling

Dislikes: Sniper fire, barricaded windows, fast-moving automobiles

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Court rules lesbians are not just from Lesbos

Tue Jul 22, 2008 12:21pm EDT

ATHENS (Reuters) - A Greek court has dismissed a request by residents of the Aegean island of Lesbos to ban the use of the word lesbian to describe gay women, according to a court ruling made public on Tuesday.

Three residents of Lesbos, the birthplace of the ancient Greek poetess Sappho whose love poems inspired the term lesbian, brought a case last month arguing the use of the term in reference to gay women insulted their identity.

...(continues)

Related:

... Straight Lesbians Want Their Identity Back
... Also, a quote for which I cannot, for the life of me, find a link on the web, Cliff Clavin of Cheers referring to someone as being "...from the island of Lesbos", which I remember thinking, at the time many years ago, was both hilarious and totally made up.

The BBC reports "Fierce fighting in Somali capital", a "battle" complete with

...heavy artillery fire in Mogadishu. Both sides claimed to have won the battle, fought with mortars and rocket-propelled grenades, inflicting high casualties on the other.

Sounds serious. And it would continue to sound serious if you didn't read the whole piece. One side says it killed 10 enemy fighters (likely exaggerated); the other side says it killed 21 (likely exaggerated). Another four hapless souls, noncombatants, were killed in the crossfire.

So this fierce battle with heavy artillery exchanges and high casualties actually yielded under 40 dead?

I'm not trying to come across as bloodthirsty here, but I think the BBC is overstating things a bit. By which I mean a lot. I don't have a number of casualties in mind that, once reached, we've left "skirmish" and are into "battle". But if you tell me there was a fierce battle with heavy artillery and high casualties...I'm thinking Verdun and Kursk and Normandy and Inchon and Hue City and Khe Sanh. I'm thinking Mars and Marduk and the right-effing-hand of Satan. I'm not thinking of so much high-explosive posturing.

And hey not for nothing but if these clowns shoot artillery like our old friends, the Liberian infantry, handle small arms it's no wonder these wars take 30 years to fight.

By the close of FY09, all Ministers are required to own one of these. The expectation is it will be worn at all Ministry functions, in the creation of Ministry content, and at all viking metal shows. This directive supercedes prior guidance regarding the wear of perfidious garments.

In the event of zombie attack or Ragnarok, continued wear is at Minister's discretion.

[wik] Of course no outfit would be complete without a matching purse.

Why the hell is THIS a top headline this morning? Could we PLEASE report on something newsworthy, like troops being slaughtered in Afghanistan or at least A-Rod playing cork-the-bat with Madonna?

At least now I have something I can plan to do after retirement.

Score one for the good guys.

Texas, long known as a stronghold of Republican might, oil, presidents and ex-presidents, and conspicuous consumption (Texans are the only visitors to Colorado who exceed Californians in sheer obnoxiousness) could possibly be the starting point for the long-sought Green Revolution.

Algae-based biodiesel. This is pretty cool stuff.